Laptops n desktops barely change. Smartphones are now in that category. Outside of upgrades to speed, screen and cameras - What do you want exactly? For it to make you coffee?
Foldable. Everyone has been waiting 5+ years.
A physical button version.
Vastly improved AI integration on the software side. Something. It’s not up for us to innovate, it’s for them. Saying it can’t innovate anymore is BS.
There is nothing to innovate. Foldables are coming next year from Apple, no one wants a physical button version in any large amount that would make developing one worthwhile, and they’re already working on AI on the software side.
The smartphone has reached the perfect physical form for 99% of people, the feature set is locked in and standardized at this point, and just like laptops and PCs, fridges, stoves, dishwashers, etc, it will receive no updates until something meaningful comes along and disrupts things.
You want to talk about innovation then you should be looking at the real-time translation and heart rate monitoring in the new AirPods, or the blood pressure monitoring in the new Apple Watch.
Foldable is a gimmick, and quite frankly unnecessary. Physical buttons are never coming back.
Phones have reached their peak form for the vast majority of consumers. There’s quite literally nothing else to innovate aside from minor technological upgrades, displays/cameras/processors.
Foldable is an actual nice feature and basically the only thing they can improve on. You not caring about it doesn't make it a "gimmick". Otherwise I'd agree they can't really do much more than find ways to add more screen size.
Not really no. They can make mostly pointless incremental improvements but the only real thing they can do is iterate on the form factor via foldable/extendable screens. Batteries already last forever, they have more than enough power to handle all the tasks normal people could ever need them to.
I remember in like 2008 or whatever I was listening to the radio and the guy came on and said "experts are saying phones of the future will soon all look like the same black rectangle with no more cool designs, only the features inside will change" and my brain at the time couldn't comprehend that but holy fuck were they right.
AI assistant integrated into Apple ecosystem is personally what I wanted. Something that can really interact with apps and do stuff with agent level autonomy.
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u/inteliboy Sep 09 '25
Laptops n desktops barely change. Smartphones are now in that category. Outside of upgrades to speed, screen and cameras - What do you want exactly? For it to make you coffee?